With Hamilton celebrating its 10th anniversary, the original well-received Broadway pro-shot, which dropped on streaming for everyone with a Disney+ subscription back in 2020, is now in theaters for a limited run. That means talk around a full-scale movie adaptation has fired back up. However, if you’re holding out for a cinematic retelling of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical… don’t hold your breath just yet.
While attending the premiere event for Hamilton: The Movie Experience, Miranda addressed the ongoing speculation in a red carpet interview shared by The Hollywood Reporter’s TikTok. And while he didn’t slam the door entirely shut, his response made it clear that the bar is high enough that a film adaptation would need to “rise up” to the occasion to really happen. He responded:
